PRIZEWINNER
SOUTH KOREA
Chang Jee Hui
Reflection 1998
colour pencil and pastel on paper
mounted on board 111.7 x 71.8 cm
Exhibition Catalogue No. 205

Chang Jee Hui was born in Korea in 1981, is currently attending Sun Hwa Art High School and lives in Seoul. She has participated in various national art competitions for children and teenagers. The picture is a self-portrait, produced by drawing her reflection in a mirror. The artist comments: ‘In the year 2000, I will be an adult and will have become a college art student. It has been my dream since I was young to paint whatever I wish. This will certainly be a memorable year on the way to becoming a real painter. In my picture, I have represented the past in the background with a faded picture of a special Korean folk tale, and the present with myself, so expressing my affection for my country and the future’.